Midlands Masters, King of the hill

[Steve Hancock]

My club, (The University of Birmingham Paintball Club) has been going for 3 years now. We started of just running monthly recball trips to local sites, as the club grew in size, (about 200 members now) some people started getting more into it.

15 of our keenest entered a woodland tournament at NPF, WDP's site up at bassets pole. We had a great day and decided to enter more tournaments. (It helped that we won and got a grand in prize money!)

I've been looking around and Mids Masters, King of the hill seems to be good for a first tournament. Does any one play in it or has played in it, and can let me know what it's like.

I also have a few specific questions:
> How many games are there per day?
> is it a knock-out or round-robin format?
> Are they a series of one offs, or is there an on going ranking system or end of year finals?
> What level of kit do most people play with?
> Is it mainly sup'air or are there wood land games?
> Roughly how many people enter and do the same teams turn up each time.

Cheers for all your help, hopefully see you there in the new year.

 

[Mario]

lo mate, to answer some of you questions i better set the scene for you first about next year.

Next year the MM and King of the hill are combining to form a league for novice to am players i believe so that britian still has an entry arena for the lessexperienced teams. this will be the same format as MM are now.....

answer to q.1 you should have about 8 games a day or more
q.2. it's a league based tourney so you have your 8 games and then you have the quarter finals semis and finals to decide overall winner of day.
Q.3 on going ranking system
q.4 some sort of semi automatic paintball gun. if it shoots and is on the legal limit for paint shots then it's allowed pretty much as long as certain conditons are met i.e. trigger bounce etc.
q.5 mainly supair but there may be some woodland
q.5. can't give exact number but theres a fair few mate

Hope that helps.

 

[le-pig]

15 teams enterd so far,5 man teams,freindly atmosphere.you will need to be quick as the next leg is on the 17th august at utoxeter,c02 supplied but bring your own air
a load of us are camping there saterday night

 

[Steve Hancock]

Cheers Mario, See you there hopefully.

 

[ChrisWhiteSTEL]

Is Air provided at Midlands Masters or is that BYO aswell?

 

[Steve Hancock]

The club only really meets during term time coz everyone goes back home during the holidays. Term starts at the begining of October, So i was planning to see who was interested in forming a tournament team, sort out some kit and start training ready for the new season in Jan.

I've just had a look at there website and rd4 is in november so we might come along to that.

 

[joolux.//]

at MM air is included.

 

[le-pig]

trust me on this BRING YOUR OWN AIR

 

[le-pig]

Originally posted by ChrisWhiteSTEL
Is Air provided at Midlands Masters or is that BYO aswell?

king of the hill is bring your own air,co2 is supplied

 

[Dark Warrior]

These answers are based on what happened at KOTH2 and are therefore
How many games are there per day?
If all teams turn up: 8 + Final (if you are good enough)

is it a knock-out or round-robin format?
You play against every team in your division
The winning team from each division then play off for the title trophy

Are they a series of one offs, or is there an on going ranking system or end of year finals?
One offs

What level of kit do most people play with?
Full spectrum of kit but mostly tournament marker entry level and above

Is it mainly sup'air or are there wood land games?
Now all Sup' Air

Roughly how many people enter and do the same teams turn up each time.
It's a novice event so you must obviously meet that criteria
Should be 18x 5 man teams

Foot note
All 2003 KOTH events are BYO air upto press
This should change in 2004, when it becomes part of the MM 5-man series which has air supplied by H-Pac